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Grupo Excelencias Celebrates 20 Years of the Excelencias Awards in Madrid

Grupo Excelencias Celebrates 20 Years of the Excelencias Awards in Madrid

In an emotion-filled ceremony, Grupo Excelencias celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Excelencias Awards on October 29, which, for two decades, have highlighted the most outstanding projects in tourism, gastronomy, art, and culture in Ibero-America.

Xilitla: The Unfinished Dream

At a site topped by a green foliage, deep in the jungle of Mexico’ s Huasteca, surrounded by a crushing humidity, Edward James, a wealthy man from Scotland, amateur painter, poe

Yayo

Diego Herrera, Y

The Emperor’s New Suit: “He’s Naked!”

Guillermo Machuca is a renowned theoretician, art critic, curator and academician in Chile, a man who in recent years has opted for some kind of silence or low profile. Far from leadi

Q & A with Liliana Porter

Liliana Porter (1941) shoots with the effectiveness of a haiku through simple operations, with clean images and common objects placed in absurd or paradoxical situations. The

Ethnotopia

Ethnotopia isa strategy of artistic representation, based on the synergic articulation of elements regarding the way of living and the habitat of a specific human group, obtaining as

Lasa in the Eleventh Havana Biennial

The Artistic Laboratory of San Agustin(LASA) is making headlines againin this Eleventh Biennial. Following its foundation four years ago in this community located in the west of Havana, it’s

Havana Biennial: Side Exhibitions 2012

(...) Organizing the Eleventh Havana Biennial in 2012 has been a challenge to the National Council of Plastic Arts, in the first place, and to the Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary A

Whitney Biennial: More or less under the same roof

Since 1932, the Whitney Biennial, featuring artists who allegedly take the pulse of the visual arts in New York and around the world, is held under the same roof. What was the outstan

ARCO 2012: Play, Transcend, Buy

The latest edition of ARCO 2012 has come to a close, leaving the doors open to some kind of generalized optimism. Art analysts and an increasing number of economists describe a somewh

With the Music Inside

A decolonial reading of the 26th National Visual Arts Biennial in Santo Domingo

About Submarines and Castles in the Sky

Esterio Segura’s new installation project for the 11th edition of the Havana Biennial (2012) implies the construction of a number of handmade underwater limousines and cars to be deployed al

Sightings at Cuba’s Contemporary Art. The passion of Jose Busto

According to various seasoned Cuban artists and curators, one of the greatest weaknesses of our artistic field in the face of the international competition for exposé, position

Art Collecting Today, Heritage Tomorrow

Q & A with Corina Matamoros

 

(...) All series of objects tell you something about the hand that collects them. T

Reynerio Tamayo: SATELLITE LESSONS

 

Flashing its monochromatic character, and like if it’s all about pictures, Reyneiro Tamayo’s recent work plays to be a landscape, schemes it as fiction. The artist offe